An Evening with Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz brings her signature wit and razor-sharp commentary to McCarter Theatre. In a cultural landscape filled with pundits and talking heads, she remains one of the most insightful social critics of our time. With her acerbic take on current events, the media, and everyday absurdities, she spares no one—including tourists, baggage-claim areas, aftershave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, and anyone who is unduly tan. The New York Times Book Review hails Lebowitz as an “important humorist in the classic tradition,” while Martin Scorsese captured her sharp-tongued brilliance in the HBO documentary Public Speaking. 

Photo: Princeton University’s Eliza Griswold

About Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold, a contributing writer covering religion, politics, and the environment, has been writing for The New Yorker since 2003. She has written and translated six books of poetry and nonfiction, including “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” for which she won a Pulitzer Prize. Griswold has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New America Foundation, among others, and has been awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, and the Rome Prize for her poetry.  She is Ferris professor at Princeton University, where she directs the journalism program.

Arts & Ideas links Princeton University Scholarship and Campus life to McCarter's work on stage and is co-sponsored by the Princeton University Humanities Council.